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Design method is very essential and important for engineers.Present study proposesa new blast-resistantdesign method. First, twocommon used blast-resistant design methodsarediscussed. By analyzing the disadvantage of the common procedures,a new blast-resistant design methodisproposed. The new design method has less design loops, as well asgood control of the maximum displacement and ductility. Then, a dimensionless P-I diagram, which is convenient for design, isproposed based on the newdesign method. Finally, the new blast-resistant design methodis applied in the performance-based blast-resistant design (PBBD)proceduredescribed using adetaileddesign example. The design example showsthatthe proposed design method could be easily applied in the PBBD procedure